For years, magicians have explored the idea of transforming an ordinary object into a playing card. And for every version, spectators around the world lost their collective minds. <\/p>\n
It’s a plot that just works. Take something familiar, make it become something impossible, and watch the moment work its magic.<\/p>\n
So Craig Petty and Lloyd Barnes started asking themselves a simple question:<\/p>\n
How do we take this idea even further?<\/i><\/p>\n
The answer was FUEL<\/b>.<\/p>\n
Imagine having a card selected and signed. The card is lost back into the deck, as you place a lighter you’ve been using the entire show into their hands.<\/p>\n
The card vanishes from the deck… as you say…<\/p>\n
“Would it be amazing if your card appeared UNDER the lighter in your hands…”<\/p>\n
“Would it be amazing if your card appeared INSIDE the lighter?<\/p>\n
“Would it be amazing if your card BECAME the lighter?”<\/p>\n
It’s a statement that makes absolutely no sense. They SAW the lighter go into their hand, and they STILL FEEL it sitting there! <\/p>\n
But when they open their hands, the lighter is gone. The piece of rigid plastic, flint, and lighter fluid has become a piece of wobbly card paper, with a lighter print on one side, and their signature on the other.<\/b><\/p>\n
This is FUEL<\/b>.<\/p>\n
We get it. We were completely skeptical at first too. <\/p>\n
How does a spectator not feel the difference between a lighter and a piece of paper?<\/p>\n
Watch the trailer.<\/b> <\/p>\n
It includes every single performance we filmed of Fuel because every reaction was insane! Not a single one hit the cutting room floor.<\/p>\n
I personally walked into that filming session questioning Craig and Lloyd’s sanity, but I walked out a true believer.<\/p>\n
And this part is even crazier to me… Craig didn’t even use a real lighter for most of those performances! <\/p>\n
No real lighter to have to manage.<\/p>\n
No awkward switch.<\/p>\n
No need to light anything beforehand to convince them that it’s real. <\/p>\n
To be fair, he does teach you how to switch a lighter in and out of play in the tutorial, but you’ll see from the trailer performances that it simply isn’t necessary.<\/p>\n
So what do you actually get with FUEL<\/b>?<\/p>\n
You receive 40 fuel gimmicks<\/b>, 20 big lighter gimmicks, and 20 mini lighter gimmicks. <\/p>\n
And each gimmick is designed to accomplish to different versions of the effect.<\/p>\n
The big lighter is built for the visual change<\/b>. You hold the lighter in your hands and, they stare right at the lighter in your hand until the moment you decide to unfold it to reveal their signature.<\/p>\n
The mini lighter is built for the in the hands version<\/b>. It goes into the spectator’s hands, where they’re convinced that they are holding a lighter, until they open their hands to discover it is their signed playing card.<\/p>\n
Two completely different experiences built around the same beautifully simple idea:<\/p>\n
A lighter becomes their signed card…<\/b><\/p>\n
Craig Petty and Lloyd Barnes took a plot that already gets incredible reactions and found a way to make the final moment even more fire.<\/p>\n
Your spectator’s see a lighter, and they are convinced that they are holding nothing more than a lighter.<\/p>\n
Until they open their hands and discover the impossible.<\/p>\n
This is FUEL.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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